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The presenter and host Jake Winters (David Duchovny) is then shown walking on desolate train tracks with his dog Stella. He begins reading a letter from his post office box out loud that begins with "Dear Red Shoes..."

How about I am still watching. And not only that, but I'm going to charity events where David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are at. This was taken on July 20-something, 2011. Gillian is still smoking hot. I'm the redhead. Yes, that's Chris Carter to the right.

We're both going to die in here. The difference is, I'm going to die quickly. As an employee of the National Security Agency you should know that a gunshot wound to the stomach is probably the most painful and the slowest way to die. But I'm not a very good shot. And when I miss... I tend to miss low..."

Too true, Mulder was pretty useless with a weapon. Also, Mulder was usually the only person who even saw anything paranormal, and would just tell Scully about it later. I'm pretty convinced most of the alien/monster-of-the-week stuff that happened on the show was all in his insane paranoid mind, and Scully was benevolent enough to humor him with alternative scientific explanations.

Eh, there were a few that had Scully encounter something unexplained. One that stands out is a Christmas episode in a haunted house. Both experienced some weird situations and thought they had shot each other and were dying. They then ran home and exchanged Christmas presents. Perhaps my favorite episode?

True, though she doesn't really remember it, and there's some suggestion of the "alien abduction and impregnation" actually being a sort of allegory to her being a victim of sexual assault (the 90s idea of repression of sexual trauma, all the victims of the abductions being women, the end result of Scully's pregnancy).

There's also that episode in the first (or second?) season where her father dies and a convict on death row claims that he can channel her father's spirit. Scully buys it, but Mulder thinks he's just lying. Total turnaround.

Well, the first time this happens is when Scully's dad dies. There is a murderer behind bars and he seems to possess a Hannibal Lector kind of knowledge of a case Mulder and Scully are investigating. Scully experiences visions of her father and thinks that the murderer guy is a psychic, but Mulder doesn't believe it. Season 1, Ep. 13.

From Wikipedia: "While Mulder is away in England, Scully is led by coincidences, chance, fate and possibly a higher power to a married man whom she had an affair with during medical school, and a look at the life she didn’t choose, forcing her to make choices about her future."

Most X-Files episodes hold up pretty well, I'd say. The worst offenders are the ones with the "supercomputers" of the mid-90's that are sentient, can control ANY electronic device, and obviously...evil.

If you go back and watch the whole show sequentially, the transition into the last two seasons really isn't as painful and abrupt as you'd think. They stayed true to the essence of the show, and kept everything the same as it had been (with the exception of Mulder). I used to agree with you entirely on this, but having gone through it all again recently after having not seen it for a while, my perspective and opinion on it has definitely changed.

Heh interesting. When I watched them back in the day, I never understood why people said last seasons sucked. I loved them nonetheless. But after rewatching them a year ago, I understood and I found them less than amazing compared to the start or mid seasons. I guess we look at it differently.

I agree that the transition is smooth. I don't think it was abrupt at all. But I still don't like where it headed.

I had a girl crush on Scully too. She was just so awesome and Gillian Anderson was perfect! When I read in some magazine that Chris Carter was actually looking for someone like Heather Locklear for the role of Scully, I almost fainted. I'm glad he didn't.

I don't have a source, but I read that Gillian Anderson strongly disagreed on Scully's scepticism, and that she would often argue with Chris Carter over it, but the writing staff was relying too much on the believer/sceptical dialectic to drop it cold turkey.

One thing I never understood about X-Files was why it was almost always supernatural. If I wrote the show, I would have thrown in some short (maybe 5 minute) investigations or references to off-screen investigations where they investigated something and it turned out to be something normal. It would have made Scully's skepticism more justified, and painted Multer as more of a paranoid kook.

Okay, in case you're not being sarcastic and are either too young to have seen it, or live in a country that didn't air it, the show is "The X-Files". It was a really popular sci-fi series in the 90's. It was actually really good, but the comic OP posted is pretty accurate of how things usually went.

To the people who downvoted roidz: Sorry, but not everyone is aware of each and every popular show you like.

I'm currently watching all seasons for the first time.
I've found the 'Complete Collector's Edition' for like $50 some months ago and had do buy it, even though I had never watched it.
So far, it's been awesome. But I have the feeling that I just need to watch 1 or 2 episodes from each season to get the whole show.

Reminds me of when Family Guy did a bit about Law & Order but all the characters were chickens and just squaked, but it followed the same storyline that every episode does. Same thing can be done with the show Medium... I love that show, but it's hilarious that after her being right every single time for 5 seasons they still start every episode with, "Oh, yeah, so you saw this in a dream? Ok, sure."

Loved that show as a credulous kid. Couldn't watch past episode 3 on Netflix more recently. It wasn't too bad when they focused on different myths and urban legends every episode. Got really boring (even as a kid) when they got into their single-minded alien fetish.

They forgot the part where Mulder has a hunch that, out of hundreds of various scientific or supernatural explanations, the three-legged firewolf from Indian folklore did this particular thing and then him always ending up right.